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Gnome Activity Journal - a semantic file browser based on Zeitgeist - has been updated to version 0.6.0, adding quite a few new features.

Gnome Activity 0.6.0 comes with Xchat and Bazaar version control support, drag and drop for tree view and bookmark/pin area as well as some eyecandy tweaks like a welcome screen, usability tweaks, path's label is now clickable and more.

Here are all the new features / improvements in GAJ 0.6.0:

Added drag and drop support to the three views

Added drag and drop support to the bookmark/pin area

Improved items preview adding information tooltip

Added tooltip for peeking quickly into categories

Added preview for Audio items

Added appindicator/Tray icon support

Added support for Xchat

Added support for Bazaar version control system

Eye candy tweaks:

Added "welcome screen" showed when the Activity Journal starts and loads the items

Go to Today button always highlighted

Path's label clickable in MoreInformation window

Usability tweaks to the views toolbar

Item's categories becomes coloured when containing a searched item

Install Gnome Activity Journal 0.6.0 in Ubuntu

As usual, the latest GAJ is available in the Zeitgeist PPA (unfortunately version 0.6.0 is only available for Ubuntu Maverick). Add the PPA and install Gnome Activity Journal using the following commands: